Glastonbury festival on TV: In which we take a moment to watch the watchers

Mid-evening in the world of television Glastonbury offered the opportunity to flick between Crosby, Stills & Nash on BBC4 and Kasabian on BBC3. Both aurally up to scratch, the camera found one more magnetic. But which one?

They were both on the Pyramid stage, one after another, with Cross, Stills & Nash wedged in-between Dizzee Rascal and Kasabian in a classic piece of Glastonbury scheduling. But when it came to showing full sets, one went to the channel for the young and frivolous, the other squirrelled away on BBC television-for-the-highminded Four.

Flicking between the two, however, was interesting. Both clearly pleased the crowd in different ways, but apparently the cameraman found Kasabian more visually exciting.

On BBCWheeee, the camera was very focused on those crazy Kasabian boys, and their crazy antics with their crazy dancing and their crazy maracas.

On BBCSerious, meanwhile, long, ponderous guitar solos washed over the early evening crowd, and the camera did, too. Long, sweeping shots of the clouds, the crowds, the burger vans and the people wandering off into faraway trees, possibly to go to the toilet. Luckily, the camera doesn't zoom that far.

Then some thoughtful shots of people sleeping in the sun, panning out to reveal 100,000 tents.

And then, cut back to the crowd swaying in hushed awe and mumbling along until they reach the chorus of Stop Children, What's That Sound?, at which point they all join in lustfully like they really knew ALL the lyrics, of course, but had just been thinking of other (more important) things during the verse. Deep things. Crosby, Stills & Nashish things.

Eventually, you'd cut back to the stage, and find CS&N still hanging out being three blokes standing behind microphones … and you appreciate it for a moment. Then start hoping you could watch the audience, again. Because, you know, as nice as listening to it is, there are more exciting performers to watch. Or things to watch. Flags. Tents. Birds. Anything. Anything but three ageing musicians. Some with beards. Some a bit chubby. Standing there.

Can I see the burger van again please?

- Favourite thing seen being waved in the crowd today: An I (heart) DUNSTABLE flag. That's nice, isn't it? Because it gets a raw deal, Dunstable.

- A continued rant: I now know where Florence and the Machine got her jacket and which shoemaker lent one of the presenters her shoes. I know where La Roux got her necklace and have heard speculation on the likelihood of The Boss wearing wellies. Do I care? No. But I know, because they keep insisting on TELLING ME.

- Field of conjecture: There's a rumour going round on Twitter that Springsteen's hoping to do his full three-hour set and is quite prepared to pay the fine. I wonder how much of THAT we'll get to see on the telly…